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Whenever one sees a Rolls-Royce Ghost or Phantom, one thinks of parvenu. The Wraith had potential but is saddled with middling execution. BMW, with this model, is targeting the Far East client.
Many parvenus in Florida then...
I like the Ghost a lot, would only get one if I really had serious money and would want a very comfortable daily driver.
What do people drive who think they are "old" money? A Lincoln Town Car? Mercedes S class?
Most don’t care what they drive and many don’t even own a car if they live in a large city.
I know a couple of rich people and all have cars. Mercedes S class, BMW 7 series (here in Bavaria basically the rich people car if you want to blend in ), Ghost (US, UK, lately even in Germany but rare)...also many smaller cars, which actually don't "fit" rich people at all. The wife of a very rich architect over here (he "built" basically half of the houses in our small town, died a few years ago) drives a VW Golf. Always the latest model but...VW Golf.
The new 7 series is a bit too much in my opinion but not in a good way. The X7 isn't much different I'm afraid.
I guess now that BMW basically lost EU markets for such cars, they concentrate on other markets.
Vehicles of some of the billionaires that I know and these are very much documented as possessing such wealth. One drives an older Toyota Land Cruiser with over 130,000 miles and another is driven around in a previous generation Mercedes S63; however he does own most of the recent exclusive Ferraris. Another is driven in a Cadillac XTS and usually is seated with the driver in the front passenger seat. Finally, there's one who rides around town on a folding commuter bicycle but this individual decided to change gender a few years ago.
The ultra rich are just as individual as any other group of people. My mentor growing up is probably only worth a few hundred million but he still drives around in a late 90's Jaguar. "The last truly British car, delicate and cosseting" as he put it. He also has four 911s (and about 50,000 bottles of wine). One of my clients just before Christmas I found out that his $6B fund is almost 20% his own money. He drives a Toyota Avalon I think. Then you have my lead investor who has about $85m in cars and drives something different every day. He's much more flash but still drives an S class probably 30% of the time and in the winter often just gets driven around in a Sprinter Limo conversion.
All combinations exists .
I have two multi billionaire real friends . One drives a Land Rover Discovery , a VW Passat and a Toyota Hilux, but on the other hand has a 69 m super yacht . The other one just sticks to Volvo . ( both are old money )
Then a guy in my village that I know a little bit just recently entered the 300 riches in Switzerland with 1Billion ( so new money ) , drives around in a Bentley or Mercedes s coupé .
And then there is that guy not living too far from me, not sure about how much he is worth , but a lot, had a collection of at least 30 Porsche , drives most of them around , owns two jets ( one for Europe and one for long distances ) etc...
All variants are in the nature . But truth is , being loaded does not equal driving around in expensive cars .
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